Wepollack on Youtube has a succinct little video explaining the type of person who thrives within a hyper-regulated crony capitalist system (this is about the US, but could be the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia or just about anywhere with a highly developed government):

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One piece of the equation he left out was academia. Plenty of these weasels (Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers) occupy university positions at various points in their careers, and while students they soak up Keynesianism, socialism and theoretical justifications for everything the government does.